Peter's online, so should be deleted within minutes - and 95% of the daily visitors to travellerspoint won't even know it was there.

Still, maybe it would be good to put in a rate limiter. Something like: budding members can't start more than 5 threads per 5 minute period, nor post more than 10 times in a 5 minute period? (to catch those spammers who work by replying). Those limits have to be kinda high so as to not inconvenience those new members who're just really enthusiastic about finding travellerspoint, but something like this would which at least have given this spammer a two minute timeout after the first five threads, and halved the total number of threads which it could post before being flagged.

Yeah, I flagged all of those in the Intro forums. A few actually were 'Just posted', while the latest one was not more than 10 minutes.

We definitely need a limit on how many one can post in the span of 5 minutes.

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Posted bybentivogli(Travel Guru 2398 posts) 8y
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Quoting Hien

Yeah, I flagged all of those in the Intro forums. A few actually were 'Just posted', while the latest one was not more than 10 minutes.

We definitely need a limit on how many one can post in the span of 5 minutes.

Not 'one' --> newly registered users only, please!

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Posted byUtrecht(Moderator 5635 posts) 8y
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Quoting bentivogli

Quoting Hien

Yeah, I flagged all of those in the Intro forums. A few actually were 'Just posted', while the latest one was not more than 10 minutes.

We definitely need a limit on how many one can post in the span of 5 minutes.

Not 'one' --> newly registered users only, please!

Yeah, we want to spam a lot!

[ Edit: Edited on 28-Jul-2009, at 08:43 by Utrecht ]

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Posted bybeerman(Respected Member 1631 posts) 8y
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Reported the member and swept the halls. Now, for lunch....

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Posted byMikeAllen(Full Member 129 posts) 8y
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Yeah definatly should do something to limited budding members or people or new posters to so many posts per minuite etc..

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Posted bymagykal1(Travel Guru 2026 posts) 8y
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Quoting Utrecht

Quoting bentivogli

Quoting Hien

Yeah, I flagged all of those in the Intro forums. A few actually were 'Just posted', while the latest one was not more than 10 minutes.

We definitely need a limit on how many one can post in the span of 5 minutes.

Not 'one' --> newly registered users only, please!

Yeah, we want to spam a lot!

I like to push the pram-a-lot!

Sorry, I know it's a serious thread but I couldn't help it.

Agree with the limitery thingy.

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Posted byIsadora(Travel Guru 13926 posts) 8y
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Quoting magykal1

Quoting Utrecht

Quoting bentivogli

Quoting Hien

Yeah, I flagged all of those in the Intro forums. A few actually were 'Just posted', while the latest one was not more than 10 minutes.

We definitely need a limit on how many one can post in the span of 5 minutes.

Not 'one' --> newly registered users only, please!

Yeah, we want to spam a lot!

I like to push the pram-a-lot!

Sorry, I know it's a serious thread but I couldn't help it.

Agree with the limitery thingy.

Yup - that amount of spam is serious - but sometimes you just can't help but take the Monty Python approach as the spammer ends up being the parrot pining for the fjords - basically nailed to it's perch and ultimately dead in the water.

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Posted bytway(Travel Guru 7273 posts) 8y
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